About the company
Our client is a consumer technology company.
The role
Raydar is recruiting for this role on behalf of our client. Lead backend and infrastructure work for a high-traffic consumer web platform, keeping services dependable and quick while building the systems behind new features. You will diagnose issues from the user-facing symptom to the root cause and own technical decisions on a very small team.
What you'll do
- Build the infrastructure that supports new product features, including recommendation, model training and serving pipelines.
- Own production reliability through monitoring, logging, incident response and fixes that remove root causes.
- Tune the speed and fault tolerance of the API layer, data access, caching, asynchronous processing and live connections.
- Keep strengthening the existing stack, including protection against automated abuse.
- Make architecture and capacity decisions as usage grows, and shape how the team deploys, observes and recovers services.
Requirements
What we're looking for
- At least 4 years of software engineering experience, with a meaningful share spent on backend or infrastructure systems.
- Experience running significant backend systems in production, beyond writing the code.
- Strong skills in TypeScript/Node.js and PostgreSQL.
- Versatile enough to debug across multiple layers of a system, even in areas that are new to you.
- Comfort taking an ambiguous problem to a production fix with little direction on a small, high-ownership team.
- Able to work on-site 5 days a week.
Bonus points
- Experience with NestJS, Redis or Kubernetes.
- Background in distributed systems or GPU infrastructure.
Benefits
Compensation and benefits
- Base salary: USD 200,000 to 300,000 per year
- Health, dental and vision coverage
- Retirement plan with employer match
Location and work model
- San Francisco, CA, United States
- On-site, 5 days a week in office
- Full-time
Skills Required
- At least 4 years of software engineering experience, with significant backend or infrastructure experience
- Experience running significant backend systems in production
- Strong skills in TypeScript and Node.js
- Strong skills in PostgreSQL
- Ability to debug across multiple system layers
- Ability to independently solve ambiguous problems on a small team
- Ability to work on-site five days per week in San Francisco, California
- Experience with NestJS
- Experience with Redis
- Experience with Kubernetes
- Background in distributed systems
- Background in GPU infrastructure
What We Do
Raydar is a talent acquisition and business consulting firm that connects world-class and emerging talent with growing organizations. It supports companies through team development, strategic hiring, and customized growth solutions, helping clients recruit roles such as engineers, product managers, executives, legal counsel, and quantitative traders. Raydar focuses on understanding each organization’s needs, culture, and long-term goals to build high-impact teams.
